Meet Season for Caring partner agency, Hospice Austin

Hospice Austin , the first hospice in Central Texas, was established 35 years ago to ease the physical, emotional and spiritual pain of any person in the community facing the final months of a serious illness. Patients receive care in their own homes, at Hospice Austin’s Christopher House or in nursing facilities in Travis, Williamson, Bastrop, Hays and Caldwell counties. Each patient has a team consisting of a doctor, nurse, social worker, chaplain, certified nurse aid and volunteer. As a not-for-profit hospice, Hospice Austin’s resources are not used to benefit investors but instead go back into services to benefit patients and their families. No one who needs services is ever turned away because of complexity of disease, cost of care or inability to pay. Hospice Austin cares for patients’ physical, emotional and spiritual needs so they can concentrate on what’s important — spending quality time with the people they love.

This is Hospice Austin’s ninth Season for Caring. It nominated Brenda Conley-Batts. The 64-year-old nurse has spent her life taking care of others. Now, legally blind and diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, she wants a less stressful place to live with her husband, Curtis.